Oh, I am not surprised about that. Ubisoft were never really known for respecting their customers.
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Finally seeing them complaining, it was weird that they were so quiet.
Thry didnt want to give it attention, but now that its gained some traction and may cause something to actually happen, its a problem for them
You call that complaining? It was a bunch of vague non-answers meant to not really directly answer any of the shareholder questions
Wasn't their driving game a big factor in the campaign in the first place? Guy's out of touch to say the least
I don't care what this guy has to say. I'm not even going to click on that link because it'll just make me angry. Fuck off, Yves. Get your own house in order.
He should probably concentrate making games people want to play instead. Ubisoft is down the drain.
The Stop Killing Games demands are not hard to meet, unless you’re a greedy little shitgoblin.
https://www.google.com/finance/quote/UBI:EPA?window=5Y
You're right, they aren't doing so well looking at this 5 year window.
During the last sale recently I was looking for an open world racing sim. Ended up getting Forza Horizons 5 over Ubisoft's The Crew 2 because they killed off and removed my copy of The Crew from my library, so they can get fucked.
Idk if Microsoft Studios is the better choice here lol
Microsoft killed delisted Forza Horizons 4 when their licensing deals expired. They're not any better in that regard.
Edit: killed -> delisted
No they didn’t. It was delisted from stores. The game still works if you own it, or even if you go out today and buy a used physical copy. Same goes for all of the delisted FH games.
Delistings are not what SKG is about and I wish people would stop pretending it is.
You at least can still play the old Horizon games. Just not buy them. The Crew is unplayable and was forcibly removed from people's accounts. Do still agree screw Microsoft though.
Truly so shocked. Anyway, pretty obvious since the biggest reason these companies refuse to even release the server component (as opposed to making the game playable offline) is that they can then either "remaster" the game and release it again in like a decade or just release it again with maybe a couple features added and call it v2.0.
"And now, available for a limited time from within the Disney vault!"
They were really selling VHS cassettes as the definitive format you would keep and treasure for the rest of your life.
Yeah and now I own them all. I did not pay for a single one as VHS is treated as trash most of the time. Don't play them just have them sitting in a closet due to their stupid giant plastic boxes that become brittle and crunchy when exposed to sunlight (kinda like the corporate ghouls that made them).
Nintendo is doing exactly that (pulling games from stores, letting them die). Now that they have more invasive DRM in their latest console, they might even take a more active approach like Ubisoft wegen it comes to live service games. Let's just "sunset" Mario kart world live service and brick it in a couple of years?
The ceo is a massive clown!
It's fair to say they can't support games forever. But in that case make games that don't need support forever or provide the software to run the games for free after some time.
Your unwarranted sexism here is weird, gross, and unnecessary. The EU parliament is not perfectly 50/50 but it’s not that far off.
The EU parliament is a parasite?
And then we kill Ubisoft. Murder by no purchases.
We wish but they'll never go away. Die hard fans and whales are going to buy the games no matter what plus all the microtransactions included.
Incredible that they got over 1 million signatures, and this shooting target gets just as much of a say.
Ironically, I think Ubisoft has a good example of a multiplayer game with a good end-of-life despite not reaching its sales expectations with BattleCore Arena, where the last update allowed P2P play after the servers went down. Meaning that the game wasn't totally killed off, even if it was thought as yet another service game, which is always appreciated.
That said, given the lack of marketing that was done around the game, it was perhaps a "not too expensive game that could maybe work on a fluke", where Ubisoft's lack of attention potentially left the devs quite free with their game. Devs who thankfully respected their players and made good end-of-life decisions.
The whole reason Stop Killing Games exists is because of Ubisoft, because they killed off The Crew.
That's true, and i'm not trying to say that Ubisoft is a good actor here, I just think that the example of BattleCore Arena quite unusual and ironic here.
That being said, that's probably because the game did not receive a lot of attention from the higher ups at Ubisoft, so the devs could make decisions that are respectful towards the players.
What the fuck dude. True gamer moment comparing Ubisoft to Healthcare.
Why tf should anyone play the games if the CEO looks like some old rich white greedy parasite? Fuck him and Ubisoft. I was already boycotting their cookie cutter, external launcher, account needed, crashing, microtransaction bullshit enshitification anyways.
If I understand it correctly ubi was the company that was the straw that triggered the pettition. That has to sting
Yep, years ago now, Ross got particularly irked by Ubisoft's The Crew being... well, at that point in time, at risk of being shut down, at some point in the future.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=8KZwcHOSRgQ
Yeah, 7 years ago, fuck lol.
I've been watching Ross since before SKG, before the Game Dungeon... even before Mind of Freeman, when he was doing basically MetroCop skits in I think Garry's Mod?
I genuinely recommend him as just a normal type of good, underrated (untill extremely recently lol) just uh, guy who reviews weird old video games, with wit, humor, critiques, praise, and often interesting insights into what the message of a game says as real world social commentary.
He should put his energy instead to making games work on Linux to increase the profit potential.
Repeat after me: Unsupported is fine. Remotely disabled is not fine.
Ubisoft is the first company that comes to mind when I worry about games going offline.
I've talked about it before, but I have something like $2k sunk into Rocksmith 2014 and associated peripherals. I'm not aware of any other game like it for bass guitar, and the new service model of Rocksmith looks like AI shit.
If / when they take down the servers is going to be a very sad day for me.
”support can’t last forever.”
True, and it costs money to operate. You know how to fix that? Just release the source code of the server software, idiot.
Oh a CEO? Of a company that makes a franchise where characters go around assassinating the unjust?
Nah I'm just imagiluiging things.
Good. Let's make it known exactly who is trying to steal away consumer rights. Make their names and faces known to everyone. Make it known they can't win. That they can't take back what has already been sold.



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